TopicSuicide Risk

Previous research has shown that diagnostic codes routinely collected in electronic health records can help predict domestic abuse an average of two years in advance. Could EHR systems also be used to predict suicidal behavior?

By monitoring people via smartphone several times per day, Mass General researchers became the first to show that there are distinct patterns of suicidal thinking, which may have implications for suicide prevention efforts.

Concerned by results from a nationwide survey, a Massachusetts General Hospital psychiatrist and colleagues call for campuses to help mitigate student stress, with a special focus on transgender students and those who are racial/ethnic, gender or sexual minorities.

Joan A. Camprodon, MD, PhD, is chief of Mass General's Division of Neuropsychiatry, director of the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Clinical Service and director of the Laboratory for Neuropsychiatry & Neuromodulation. In this video, he discusses creating individualized treatments using TMS for patients with depression and using TMS to reduce suicide risk in other patients. He also discusses the use of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) as a precognitive therapy to improve executive function in patients across the neurological and psychiatric spectrum.

Associate Chief for research in the Department of Psychiatry, Director of the Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health

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